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NJ probe finds about 1,100 more problematic voter registrations
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Published Oct 7, 2026
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New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill said Wednesday that her administration uncovered about 1,100 additional problematic voter registrations during its probe of the state’s automatic voter registration system.
The administration has been investigating errors within the state’s Motor Vehicle Commission registration system since July. The investigation comes after a tense press conference earlier this summer where Sherrill revealed that up to 6,600 noncitizens had been erroneously registered to vote during previous Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration due to a software error from June 2023 to June 2024. About 340 of those noncitizens cast ballots in elections, the governor said at the time.
Sherrill previously said that IDEMIA, the software company that created the registration program, is being replaced.
Sherrill appointed an outside law firm over the summer to investigate. She also criticized Murphy for not dealing with the problem while in office. Murphy later denied having any knowledge of the problem until Sherrill’s announcement.
Sherrill said in August that her administration deleted about 5,100 noncitizens from the voter rolls and referred another 1,450 registrations to county election officials for review.
On Wednesday, Sherrill said investigators uncovered approximately 750 individuals who selected “no” on an age-eligibility prompt, but were registered to vote anyway.
In addition, she said, 340 people were improperly registered despite being ineligible because they were serving sentences for indictable offenses. Those registrations happened at MVC events that partner with reentry groups to reintegrate former prisoners into society, helping them access documents such as driver's licenses and identification.
And she said 60 people who were incarcerated at the time of their registration were identified.
None of the wrongfully registered people were noncitizens, according to the governor.
State Senate Minority Leader Anthony Bucco Jr., a Republican, said in a statement the latest disclosures "are creating more questions than answers."
"We are less than a month from Election Day and are learning that New Jersey’s voter registration system has identified hundreds of more ineligible voters registered to vote. Meanwhile the public has still not seen the report detailing the original 6,600 noncitizens who were improperly registered that led to hundreds of noncitizens voting in our elections," he said.
Bucco called for an audit of voter rolls and a release of the report.
"We need to stop learning about new problems through piecemeal press releases and start getting real answers, with a legislative review that leaves no stone unturned and ensures New Jersey voters can have confidence in the integrity of their elections," he said.
Stephen Sigmund, a spokesperson for the governor, called Republican statements about election security "absurd when their president incited an insurrection on the nation’s Capitol," and given what he called Trump administration moves "weaponizing the Federal government to try and suppress the votes of millions of people." Trump has taken several steps critics decry as aimed at voter suppression, including an attempt to change U.S. Postal Service rules to limit who could receive mail-in ballots.
State and national Republicans have seized on the issue of noncitizens on the voter rolls in New Jersey since Sherrill’s revelation in July. In the days following her initial announcement, President Donald Trump inflated the numbers she had presented, claiming without evidence that “thousands and thousands” of noncitizens voted in New Jersey. The Department of Justice demanded in court that New Jersey turn over its voter rolls to the agency. Sherrill and her administration roundly rejected this request. A federal judge dismissed Trump’s lawsuit in July.
“I promised we would be thorough to ensure that no one who is ineligible remains on the voter rolls, and that every eligible voter has their voice heard,” the governor said in her update Wednesday.
She also continued her criticism of the White House saying Trump “has been complaining about this issue for the last 10 years and done nothing to fix it.”
Sherrill said the investigation is ongoing.
This story has been updated with more information.
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Mike Hayes covers equity and access to opportunity in New Jersey. He joined WNYC and Gothamist in 2023. Before that, he worked as a freelance journalist writing about policing and criminal justice. He has written for ProPublica, CNN, HuffPost, BuzzFeed News and The Appeal. He is also the author of the book, “The Secret Files: Bill De Blasio, The NYPD, and the Broken Promises of Police Reform.” In 2019, he was a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists.
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